Murat (name)

Murat is a male Turkish name, spelled as Murad during the Ottoman period. Its meaning can be translated roughly into desire, wish, yearning or goal. It may refer to:

Given name

• Murat Akça (born 1990), Turkish footballer
• Murat Akyüz (born 1981), Turkish footballer
• Murat Bardakçı (born 1955), Turkish journalist
• Murat Başesgioğlu (born 1955), Turkish politician and MP for Kastamonu
• Murat Belge (born 1943), Turkish liberal intellectual, academic, literary critic, columnist, and civil rights activist
• Murat Boz (born 1980), Turkish pop singer
• Murat Ceylan (born 1988), Turkish footballer
• Murat Çetinkaya (born 1976), Governor of the Central Bank of Turkey
• Murat Didin (born 1955), Turkish basketball coach
• Murat Direkçi (born 1979), Turkish kickboxer
• Murat Duruer (born 1988), Turkish footballer
• Murat Evliyaoğlu (born 1969), Turkish basketball player
• Murat Gülsoy (born 1967), Turkish writer
• Murat Günak (born 1957), Turkish automobile designer
• Murat Karayalçın (born 1943), Turkish politician
• Murat Karayılan (born 1954), Acting Leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party or PKK
• Murat Kaya (born 1984), Turkish basketball player
• Murat Kurnaz (born 1982), Turkish former prisoner at Guantanamo Bay
• Murat Önal (born 1987), Turkish-Dutch footballer
• Murat Önür (born 1981), Turkish footballer
• Murat Öztürk (aviator) (1953–2013), Turkish aerobatic pilot
• Murat Öztürk (born 1969), Turkish football coach
• Murat Sözgelmez (born 1985), Turkish footballer
• Murat Torun (born 1994), Turkish footballer
• Murat Yenipazar (born 1993), Turkish volleyball player
• Murat Yıldırım (disambiguation)
• Murat Zyazikov (born 1957), 2nd President of the Russian republic of Ingushetia
• Murat Pasha (disambiguation)
• Murat Reis (disambiguation)

Ottoman nobility

• Murad I (1326–1389), Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1359 to 1389
• Murad II (1404–1451), Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1421 to 1451
• Murad III (1546–1595), Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1574 to 1595
• Murad IV (1612–1640), Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1623 to 1640
• Murad V (1840–1904), Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 30 May to 31 August 1876

Surname

• Henriette-Julie de Murat (1670–1716), French writer
• Jean-Louis Murat (born 1952), pseudonym of French singer Jean-Louis Bergheaud
• Joachim Murat (1767–1815), King of Naples and Marshal of France from 1808 to 1815
• Kapllan Murat (born 1962), Belgian criminal
• Karo Murat (born 1983), German boxer of Armenian descent
• Marko Murat (1864–1944), Croatian painter
• Özkan Murat (born 1957), Turkish politician
• Tuğçe Murat (born 1991), Turkish basketball player
• Zeynep Murat (born 1983), Turkish female taekwondo practitioner

See also

• Murat (disambiguation)
• Murad